Scilab Function
Last update : April 1993

excel2sci - reads ascii Excel files

### Calling Sequence

  `M=excel2sci(fname [,sep])`

### Parameters

- `fname`: character string. The file path
- `sep`: character string. Excel separator used, default value is ","
- `M`: matrix of strings

### Description

Given an ascii file created by Excel using "Text and comma" format `exel2sci(fname)` returns the corresponding Scilab matrix of strings. Use `exel2sci(fname,sep )` for an other choice of separator.

Note: You may eval all or part ot `M` using function `evstr`.

### See Also

`read`, `evstr`,